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Why pick your terms?

For the majority of people who are non-futurists, human modification and fancy new technologies are not necessarily desirable. They have associations of failing bodies, weakening minds and the reliance on regular supplements, joint replacements and so forth. As such common transhumanists terms around cyborgization, mind uploading and biohacking have limited utility outside such a context.

Even when focused on biological immortalism, advocates often enthusiastically use the jargon of life extension, immortalism and longevity, all terms associated with a long, not not necessarily happy of healthy life. Consequently, many are turned-off by the movement, seeing a extended life of suffering, pain and medical interventions as horrific.[1]

This is where the focus on health comes in.

Scientific terms

When addressing a scientific audience or in a scientific context, one should once again avoid life extensionist or immortalist rhetoric. Examples to use: